Young girls raise more than $2000 for Royal Children’s Hospital with candles, diffusers
Four little girls have taken their passion for helping and turned it into a gigantic fundraising effort for the Royal Children’s Hospital. But their initial idea may have you falling off your chair.
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Hope is on the horizon for the Royal Children’s Hospital thanks to the help of four special little girls.
The group of youngsters started a project called Smell of Hope to raise money for sick children at the hospital.
With the help of their parents, the girls learnt how to make soy candles and diffusers from scratch which they then sold to raise the much needed funds.
The project smashed their fundraising goal and raised over $2000 in two days, selling about 50 candles and 72 diffusers.
Keilor East’s Eliana Marie, 6, said she was very happy to have made a difference.
“We wanted to help children in the hospitals so they can feel better,” she said.
Eliana said her favourite flavour of candle to make was lime and coconut.
“It smells nice, and it makes me feel how nice it would be when we give the money to the people in the hospitals,” she said.
Mother Gina Saad said the girls decided to start the project after their first idea didn’t go according to plan.
“They wanted to do something to help sick children their age, and originally they came up with a massage business,” she said.
“They wanted to approach strangers to come in and have a massage and my husband said no, so we compromised and came up with another concept.”
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Ms Saad said this wasn’t the first time her daughter had gone out on a limb to help others.
“She did the same thing last year in Cairo, she raised over $3000 for a public hospital,” she said.
The mother said she couldn’t be prouder of the girls.
“Their determination and the fact they are thinking of others and wanting to help, it just makes my heart,” Ms Saad said.